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Neil Gaiman
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 10
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Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman
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Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while.
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There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.
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I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the fairy reel
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I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.
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People tend to find books when they are ready for them.
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Because there are mysteries. Because there are things that people are forbidden to speak about. Because there are things they do not remember.
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Ocean is more about ... powerlessness and hopelessness. When we're very small we can't actually do anything - we have no say in what happens, we have no money or resources, we sometimes have no idea what's going on.
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He left the drapes open, watched the lights of the cars and of the fast food joints through the window glass, comforted to know there was another world out there, one he could walk to anytime he wanted.
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I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.
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An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
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American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.
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The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.
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I don't know. I had to be something, didn't I?
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Jesus. Low-Key Lyesmith, said Shadow. and then he heard what he was saying and he understood. Loki, he said. Loki Lie-smith. You're slow, said Loki, but you get there in the end. And his lips twisted into a scarred smile and the embers danced in the shadows of his eyes.
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When I was young, you know, the first foreign editions that would come in of anything of mine, I'd sit there and look at them as these strange and wonderful artifacts.
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Things bloosom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time.
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Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamonds as big as the tip of your thumb, of lost cities and of vast mountains, of steam-trains and clipper ships, of pampas, oceans, deserts, tundra.
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If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.
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He stared down at the golden curls of the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan, and Lord of Darkness. You know, he concluded, after a while, I think he actually looks like an Adam.
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